Research supports that exposure to stressors (eg, perceived stress and racism) during
pregnancy can negatively impact the immune system, which may lead to infection and …

Stress has been shown to adversely affect pregnancy outcomes. Neighborhood crime rates
may serve as one publicly available social determinant of health for pregnancy studies that …

Background Inequity in adverse birth outcomes between black and white women in the US
is persistent, despite decades of research and prevention efforts. Neighborhood …

Background: Prenatal health disparities exist for African Americans and low socioeconomic
status (SES) individuals when compared to non-Hispanic Whites and people of higher SES …

Prenatal stress has been linked to preterm birth via inflammatory dysregulation. We
conducted a cross-sectional study on female participants who delivered live, singleton …

Introduction Because lifetime trauma exposure has been linked to multiple adverse
pregnancy outcomes, there is a need for all perinatal care providers to be versed in trauma …

Low‐income pregnant women have been Medicaid eligible since the 1980s, but the
Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s expansion of Medicaid to women preconception has the …

Health research on the effects of crime has been hampered by a lack of small-scale, reliable
crime data. Our objective is to assess the accuracy of a set of commercially available crime …

Firearm violence may indirectly affect health among pregnant women living in
neighborhoods where it is endemic. We used birth, death, emergency department, and …

Objectives Geovisualization and spatial analysis are valuable tools for exploring and
evaluating the complex social, economic, and environmental interactions that lead to spatial …